Overview
- Tiffany P. Howell pleaded guilty to manslaughter and aggravated vehicular homicide for a crash that killed Manuel Boitel in January.
- Prosecutors say Howell admitted she was intoxicated and drove the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway, causing a head-on collision.
- Her blood-alcohol concentration was 0.18 percent, more than twice New York's legal limit for driving while intoxicated, prosecutors said.
- The plea deal sets a sentencing range of four to 12 years in prison, with a formal sentence to be handed down later this year.
- The state Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigation opened a required inquiry days after the crash, the victim’s family learned of his death via his stopped GPS tracker, and other civil or departmental actions against Howell could still follow.